[Affinity Publisher (1.7) Launch Announcement]

Just bought on the MAS. Amazing. But I guess the font pack isn't included. 

[What is affinity publisher? I’m confused!]

44 minutes ago, toutou123 said:

Let's say you want to create a movie poster, you'll affinity photo to create 1 page and put some images and text on it and export for print.

Let's say you need to create a logo, you use affinity designer to create 1 document and draw the logo there, then you export to png.

Now let's say you want to create a book of 100 pages, you can't just create 100 different documents in photo or designer and copy paste small pieces of text to each one, and what if you change the font size, you need to re-arrange documents again and again. So for these tasks that need Multiple-pages documents, you need desktop publishing/layout software like Affinity publisher or InDesign. They are not designed to create photos or vector art, but to gather and re-arrange them through a lot of pages. They have special automated features like moving text from one page to another, automated page numbering...

Some case scenarios for using a desktop publishing app are books, magazines, reports... You notice they're all composed of a lot of pages.

Agree to everything, other than I'd use Publisher for anything that will be printed, even a single page. I'd use Photo to create imagery to be imported, and Designer if I need to make illustrations. But I think Publisher should replace almost every "print" material that we used to do in Designer. 

[Affinity Photo 1.7.0 now Available on the Mac App Store]

My Mac App Store didn't show my apps in the updates, but still showed 1.7 versions on the store. So I just deleted them and am redownloading them and they're the new versions. Strange XD

[Publisher to be released in (less than) 3 weeks time.]

Would it be possible to make the Affinity Store "recognize" the Mac App Store versions of Designer and Photo? Even manually. I don't think the Affinity Store had the Mac versions back in the days I bought them (last summer I think), but I'd prefer to have them all in one place (it's a long shot I know). 

[Still NO...]

On 11/29/2018 at 4:15 PM, Patrick Connor said:

I think we may have ruled it out of the "initial release" by which we mean the launch of 1.7.0. I don't think we have committed whether more than 2 page spreads will make it into the first version 1.x or a later release like 2 or 3, but I am sure that we will implement them.

Thanks, this would be fantastic. Really psyched about Affinity Publisher guys, and Designer and Photo too. I already transitioned a good chunk of my workflow to them. Can't wait to make a complete switch, and I think a lot of people is. Cheers!

[Still NO...]

9 minutes ago, mac_heibu said:

Who told you that? I assume, you are talking about the absence of this feature in version 1 of Publisher. Certainly you agree, that they can’t built in everything we’d like in an initial version of this new product.

Oh of course I don't demand this feature to be present in version 1, but I remember some threads at the start of the beta, where developers kind of ruled out this possibility. Now I don't see much talk about that. But if they add it in the future I'll be finally able to ditch ID. But I'm buying Affinity Publisher anyway when it comes out.

[Still NO...]

Still no possibility to use more than two pages on a single spread. I know you don't intend to implement it, but it would be so useful when designing multiple pages leaflets or book covers. 

[Am I safe to use Affinity Publisher beta for finished projects?]

Compatibility between the beta and the final release is not guaranteed. 

[stili nidificati]

ok ma dovresti scriverlo in inglese

yes but you should write in english

[Affinity Publisher is not a copy of InDesign - no massive fail!]

I think we shouldn't compare it to indesign. But as a desktop publishing program it still lacks some basic functionality. By basic I mean needed to do any kind of professional work. But I'm sure Affinity will work on it and in a couple years make it so much better. They already did it with Designer and Photo. I am a Pro and I can't wait to have viable alternatives to we-know-who

[How do I set colours/transparency in a one bit bitmap?]

This is a pretty basic fuctionality that IMO needs to be implemented. Think about doing a two pantone leaflet, with a bitmap image. You can fill the foreground/background of the bitmap accordingly and print it with two pantones. Doing it via blend modes is impossibile, because wrong color values will be created. Bitmaps are very common in contemporary print graphic design.

[3 page spread]

InDesign used to be like that, but it introduced the function around cs4 or cs5. It looks like nothing but it's super useful, for example for book covers (to adjust the width of the spine, which changes with paper weight etc.), to make flyers with automatic fold marks etc..

So I think it's a feature you should plan to add sooner or later if you want to compete with indesign

[Bug - Crash using Expand on selected text]

yep, same happens here

[Spreads]

Hi, I need to lay pages one next to another (for example when doing a leaflet), but I don't understand if this function is available at the moment. This is useful to move pages around and locking them horizontally as needed, as much as they are needed just like in the posted screenshot

[Trapping, Knockout and Separation-Preview]

I am a professional designer and use that feature sparingly. Sometimes it's nice to have but I'd say not indispensable. Not for release 1.0 for sure. But to compete with indesign it will be needed sooner or later.

[Bleed View]

Yep, came to write this but found someone already pointed it out. This is very important. It would also be useful to have a button to cycle between "views" (for example deactivating margins, guides and bleeds, like W on indesign)